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  LAST UPDATE: Thursday, 26 July 2001
   
 

CONTENTS of the ASIA & PACIFIC FORUM

Background

Welcome to the Poverty Forum web site! ADB's Poverty Reduction Strategy, adopted in November 1999, committed ADB to host every three years an international forum on poverty issues. During the week of 5-9 February 2001, the Asia and Pacific Forum on Poverty (the Forum) convened for the first time ever. In one of the largest international meetings ever hosted exclusively by ADB, and more than 300 delegates from all over the world met at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines for a week of presentations and discussions of many poverty issues. The Forum provided an opportunity for various stakeholders and policymakers to share their views on poverty reduction in the Asia and Pacific region.

We invite you to explore the links listed below, to contribute your views on poverty reduction in the Asia and Pacific region, and to learn the views of others. Again, welcome to the Poverty Forum web site!

"We at ADB are dedicating ourselves to achieving our vision: a region free of poverty. This is no Utopian dream. The Asian and Pacific region can be free of poverty. This will lead to the world free of poverty. If the world is to halve poverty by 2015, Asia and the Pacific must be the spearhead."

ADB President, Tadao Chino

From his Inaugural Address at the Forum


For further information you may contact us at povertyforum@adb.org

 
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